Archive for the ‘Nutrition’ Category

(Chocolate) Milk Does A Body Good – how to get your baby to drink milk

Any baby worth his weight in cuteness, drinks milk! Not mine. I have had the toughest time trying to have him drink milk consistently. I know milk is so important for his developing bones and his cute  little piranha teeth, so I try to hide milk in creative ways so that he’ll consume it.
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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution on ABC

This show is a must see for everyone. It was so shocking that throughout the entire show, I was sick to my stomach at what I saw. Kids in elementary school couldn’t identify a tomato from a potato!

We have got to change this people. Our kids don’t even know what real food looks like anymore. [...]

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Alkaline Body Fights Cancer and Disease

I have been wanting to blog about the importance of keeping your body alkaline for a long time. When my sister and I first discovered this simple yet critical part of living a healthy life it was, as Oprah would call it, an ah hah moment. This could save your life or the life of someone you [...]

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How To Increase Skin Elasticity Through Diet – Prevent Stretch Marks

I mentioned before in another post that I used to have nightmares about getting stretch marks. True story! In the dream I would get up in the morning and use the bathroom, look at my face in the bathroom mirror and then lift up my shirt to reveal ripples, folds, jowls, and tons of deep [...]

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What’s up with Gerber Baby Food?

It’s getting to that time when my son Drew will be eating solid foods like veggie and fruit purees, so I thought it would be best to start looking at some baby food labels at my local grocery store.
I picked up a jar of Gerber Pureed Peas and to my surprise there were only 2 [...]

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Baby’s First Purees – Fruit or Veggies?

Definitely Veggies! People only say fruit because it’s sweet and they think the baby will respond better. Problem is they may reject the taste of veggies once they become too accustomed to the natural sugar.
Try these purees first.
Carrot, potato, rutabaga, parsnip, butternut squash, and maybe sweet potato.
Then move on to zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, peas.
Yum, Yum.
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One Sad American Family

Something has to be done about how we feed our families in this country. Yesterday on Oprah there was a mother of two that wanted help feeding her family. Referred to as The Microwave Mom, this mother is like many other moms in the U.S. She does most of her grocery shopping in the frozen [...]

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How I had a natural childbirth.

It is possible to have a natural childbirth IF you want it. I would suggest being well informed about what to expect during the delivery. If you don’t know what to expect then you can become frightened and start to believe that you can’t do it. YOU CAN!
For me the best thing was to watch [...]

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How can I lose weight in less than a month? Yahoo Answers

So…This poor kid was asking Yahoo subscribers how he could lose weight in a month. He wanted to play sports and he just wanted to lose like 5 lbs. That’s perfectly healthy so I submitted my answer. My answer was voted the best. All I did was tell him what I have learned over the [...]

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